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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...above their stores, scattered throughout the town's neighborhoods, whereas most wholesale grocers...
...a walking city for most of its residents. The town’s small spatial extent and the wide scatter of...
...Indiana), Kenosha (Wisconsin), and Fox Valley towns from Elgin to Aurora. Most daily commuters,...
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Social Service Education, Jeanne C. Marsh(
Authored Entry
) ...the end of the twentieth century, there were 4 graduate social work programs in Chicago (at Aurora...
...University , Loyola University Chicago, University...
...of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago), 6 in Illinois, and more than 16 undergraduate...
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| 733 |
Brazilians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's early Brazilians included a small diaspora of Southern and Eastern Europeans who, after...
...restrictive American immigration laws to settle in Chicago. From the late 1940s through the...
...a handful of Portuguese Jews , gravitated toward Chicago communities representing their birthplace...
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Kenyans, Symon Ogeto and Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...runners are world renowned and have been extremely successful in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon ....
...The first Kenyan migration to Chicago might have occurred as early as the 1940s, when Kenyan...
...numbers of Kenyan students began arriving in Chicago, and many settled permanently because of the...
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| 735 |
Feminist Movements, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...Womankind, published in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union; Mountain Moving,...
...newspaper,” and published briefly in the 1980s; and Catalyst: Chicago Womyn's Paper (1980). The...
...these periodicals were a manifestation of some Chicago-area feminists' desires by the late twentieth...
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| 736 |
Mental Health, Harold M. Visotsky(
Authored Entry
) ...programs. At the end of the twentieth century, Chicago psychiatry reflected the state of American...
...In 1847, Edward Mead, a general practitioner trained in Ohio, came to Chicago and...
...founded the Chicago Retreat for the Insane. It was set afire by a patient and burned down, and it...
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Boxing, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...a boxing town. Since the early 1960s, boxing in the city has been basically a club sport, with fight...
...Patterson. In 1961, Wirtz ended boxing matches at the Stadium, and thereafter Chicago declined as...
...the nineteenth century, boxing was part of Chicago's bachelor subculture where bouts for small bets...
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| 738 |
Historic Preservation, Barbara Sciacchitano(
Authored Entry
) ...have been rejuvenated by the restoration of an old theater, as in Aurora , or by the development of...
...the 1960s and more recently in Bronzeville on Chicago's South Side . One major preservation project...
...preservation gained popular support in Chicago in the 1960s when public concern over massive and...
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| 739 |
Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
Authored Entry
) ...local life shifted the physical location of the town's center from the stage line to the depot. When...
...1928, the village had only 200 residents. The village remained a largely rural, agricultural town on...
...the Chicago periphery until well into the latter half of the twentieth century. In the 1960s the...
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| 740 |
Bowling, Raymond Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...of bowlers from around the country. When the old bowling alley closed in 1993, the Petersen Classic...
...Until the mid-twentieth century, Chicago was one of the foremost bowling hotbeds in the United...
...States. As early as 1851 the city of Chicago had licensed five bowling alleys, and for the balance...
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| 741 |
State Politics, Michael J. Devine(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop ; at the same time many downstate view Chicago, and its increasingly affluent suburbs, with...
...as their most important urban center, and root for the Cardinals rather than the Chicago Cubs ....
...center for national and international trade, Chicago has not dominated state government in Illinois....
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| 742 |
Pacific Islanders, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...returned to the islands or migrated to the West Coast since the 1980s. While many Pacific Islanders...
...Island cultures through educational programs and community events. Forming partnerships with the Old...
...Town School of Folk Music , public schools , museums, and other public agencies, Kupa‘a (“stand...
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| 743 |
Beach Park, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...that the character of the community would always differ from these neighboring Lake County towns....
...miles lies between the larger Lake County towns of Zion and Waukegan . Fearing forcible annexation...
...impact of the growth and development in those towns, Beach Park residents voted for incorporation in...
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| 744 |
Block 37, Ross Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...redevelopment of North Michigan Avenue. The old downtown was perceived and relentlessly advertised...
...typical day it housed the population of a small town, only to be completely empty at night. All the...
...development. After Chicago's incorporation as a town in 1833, Block 37, situated only several...
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| 745 |
Veterans' Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...veterans were sent to the old Marine Hospital in the Lake View community on the North Side and to...
...to expand hospital care for veterans became apparent. In the Chicago area, sick and injured...
...hospitals serving veterans. Largest of the Chicago-area Veterans' Hospitals, the Edward Hines, Jr. ,...
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| 746 |
Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...furnished rooms west of Clark, clubs for nearby Gold Coasters, and arty bohemian gay spots. In the...
...first permanent theater in the spring of 1838 in an old auction house on Dearborn Street. Like its...
...the 1830s and 1840s Chicago was a male frontier town. The scarcity of women diminished controls of...
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| 747 |
An Upstart Behemoth, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and May Day ; Labor Unrest, 1886 (Rich Map) Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 748 |
Refugees, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...most Cubans settled in Florida and the southern coast, a growing number made their way to Chicago....
...Peruvians , and Haitians to seek asylum in Chicago. Thanks to its cosmopolitan, multiethnic...
...social services and community organizations, Chicago remains an attractive destination for refugees...
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| 749 |
Electronics, Emily Clark and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...late 1990s, Motorola employed roughly 25,000 Chicago-area residents, making it one of the region's...
...smaller firms in the area continued to represent Chicago in what had become a highly competitive and...
...Chicago companies and their employees have long stood as leading players in the American electronics...
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| 750 |
Dance, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...from the Joffrey Ballet, which would relocate to Chicago in 1995, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
...attention at MoMing Dance and Arts Center . The Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble provided serious...
...had been approved for Music and Dance Theater Chicago, a 1,500-seat, state-of-the-art auditorium to...
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